Author Topic: Grifter Racer.... anyone remember? (Read 7412 times)

FuNMoNsTeR · « **on:** December 09, 2005, 07:28 PM »

I raced a National at Peterborough one year(that loose dusty long assed track). There was a guy in the 17s(i think) who was riding a white Grifter with profile cranks etc. He smoked everyone on it. If i remeber right he told me it was a GT rear end he had cobbled onto a grifter front triangle... Maybe Geth raced him?

Geth · « **Reply #1 on:** December 10, 2005, 01:26 AM »

Maybe Gary Morgan?

stidds · « **Reply #2 on:** December 10, 2005, 05:41 AM »

It was definately Gary Morgan, I have a picture somewhere of the bike when it was in BMX Action Bike magazine.

FuNMoNsTeR · « **Reply #3 on:** December 10, 2005, 07:47 AM »

I will have to blow the dust off my BMX mags and have a trawl through them... must have been 83 or 84... narrows the trawling down a bit :santa_grin:
Thx guys

stidds · « **Reply #4 on:** December 10, 2005, 11:33 AM »

The picture is in BMX Action Bike, November 1984 page 11.

FuNMoNsTeR · « **Reply #5 on:** December 10, 2005, 11:48 AM »

Yep... thats the bike...thx m8. :santa_afro:

power · « **Reply #6 on:** December 10, 2005, 12:10 PM »

think ive put these on before

theRuler · « **Reply #7 on:** December 10, 2005, 12:17 PM »

love it!

"grifter forks are always a danger point"

aint that the truth, ruth

FuNMoNsTeR · « **Reply #8 on:** December 10, 2005, 01:27 PM »

Great pics guys.... Those forks were made for snapping.
I could never understand any of my mates that bought a grifter over a BMX. :santa_rolleyes:

Mattdub · « **Reply #9 on:** December 10, 2005, 04:05 PM »

Perhaps because they were bigger & uglier

That goes for the bikes & the guys who bought them !

FuNMoNsTeR · « **Reply #10 on:** December 10, 2005, 05:22 PM »

You must be psychic.... :santa_grin: They were all chubby farmers boys with grifters and raleigh bombers... I was poor and used to have to blag them for a go.... i had a great time snapping their bikes :santa_evil:

power · « **Reply #11 on:** December 30, 2005, 09:48 PM »

just got it bigger-you can read it,, just about

lazychubs · « **Reply #12 on:** December 30, 2005, 10:21 PM »

lol nowt wrong with a grifter mine had a pirahna front wheel
and i still managed to jump the fence at rom on it
and could wheelie for ages too lol
altho the forks were cack

Zippy · « **Reply #13 on:** December 30, 2005, 10:40 PM »

I remember putting Acorn Magnums on my grifter before I got my first BMX. The didn't last more than a week before they snapped. :santa_grin: :santa_grin: :santa_grin:

FuNMoNsTeR · « **Reply #14 on:** December 30, 2005, 11:24 PM »

You were lucky the wheel bearings held up long enough for you to snap them

daz bmx it! · « **Reply #15 on:** December 31, 2005, 12:27 AM »

I put a 5 speed chopper back wheel on mine and created a 10 speed grifter,then smoked everyone on it :santa_grin: sad thing is we smashed up the chopper and threw it in the river,bet it would have been worth a few quid aswell :santa_sad:

Mandiebmxmorgan · « **Reply #16 on:** July 30, 2013, 11:50 AM »

Quote from: stidds on December 10, 2005, 05:41 AM

It was definately Gary Morgan, I have a picture somewhere of the bike when it was in BMX Action Bike magazine.

Do you still have this picture? I would love a copy if possible. He's just become world champ aged 47

fischflo · « **Reply #17 on:** July 30, 2013, 12:33 PM »

.... still on his Grifter ... ?

...how cool is that to hear that this guy is still smokin 'em

MartyC · « **Reply #18 on:** July 31, 2013, 01:58 PM »

Yep, 45+ World Champion in NZ

Andy68 · « **Reply #19 on:** August 01, 2013, 12:07 PM »

Awesome!!!

nosepickben · « **Reply #20 on:** August 01, 2013, 04:40 PM »

What a great piece of home engineering. Good idea to cut and shut frames to get the required geometry. Why he stuck with those awful grifter forks is beyond me....
Good story that though, very good that it got documented at the time.

animal · « **Reply #21 on:** August 02, 2013, 10:12 PM »

As I recall they r standard forks

But as I did bitd straightened out the rake using a vice and blocks of wood 2 make them straight

BMX1973 · « **Reply #22 on:** August 25, 2013, 03:58 PM »

Cool story

popedante · « **Reply #23 on:** April 04, 2014, 04:46 PM »

heres my go at a grifter bmx

GT world · « **Reply #24 on:** April 04, 2014, 05:08 PM »

That's insane....love it!

Author Topic: Grifter Racer.... anyone remember? (Read 7412 times)

FuNMoNsTeR

Geth

FuNMoNsTeR

FuNMoNsTeR

power

theRuler

FuNMoNsTeR

FuNMoNsTeR

power

FuNMoNsTeR

daz bmx it!